Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The debt scholarship owes Mr. Kittredge is immense. Yet valuable as his dozens of published books and articles are, it may well be doubted whether their influences at all equals that exerted by his personality. He had the satisfaction of knowing that in almost every importance college and university in...
James Cain has a cold authority about suburban vice which could yield an invaluable gloss on Middletown or even on the works of Lardner and O'Hara. His trouble is not knowing when to stop. His money gets so cold, his sex so hot, his snobbery so snakelike and...
We are well aware of the far reaching consequences of a war. We do not expect it to be won easily. We do not expect it to be over in the next few months or even the next few years, and we are aware that many of us and of...
The canal is nothing but a narrow ditch cut through high banks of sandy soil and rock. Its sides rise steeply to a height of over 200 feet, are nowhere faced with masonry to more than 50 feet. The British, knowing that peacetime rains used to cause rock slips which...
In the first air raid, Mrs. Kennedy took shelter in an underground bakery with "an arthritic old lady" who had passed much of her life in an earthquake belt. She comforted Mrs. Kennedy by observing that "in an air raid you are in the hands of man, and there is...